POLICE OFFICER - EAGLE IC

The Emergency Awareness & General Law Enforcement Intelligence Center (aka E.A.G.L.E.) is to provide relevant real-time information to field officers responding to calls-for-service in order to improve their situational awareness. This policy addresses access, control and use of the Hobbs Police Department video camera network, including Police Department video cameras deployed in public places and camera footage sent to the E.A.G.L.E. from private businesses. 

• Regular attendance is required to perform the duties of this position and shift work will be required.  
• Actively monitors calls-for-service and will identify potential calls where additional situational awareness could be provided prior to an officer’s arrival.   
• Maintain situational awareness and availability while assisting an active call-for-service.  
• Conducts research on existing information sources (e.g. databases) to provide relevant information to officers responding to calls-for-service. The E.A.G.L.E. operator will provide this information based upon their observations, experience, and as requested.
• They are expected to use the most appropriate communication channel (e.g. police radio, MDT, Instant Message, telephone).  
• Document all call-for-services where an E.A.G.L.E. Operator was utilized for assisting responding officers. 
• Respond to internal and external requests for information and records from police, operational and administrative staff, citizens, news media, and other law enforcement agencies. 
• The ability to view multiple monitors and multi-task. 
• Requires shift work, including nights, holidays and weekends. 
• Subject to call-out in emergency situations. 
• Subject to court attendance.

Education and Experience: 

Graduation from high school or GED equivalent.

Internal Applicants: New Mexico Law Enforcement Commissioned and successful completion of the Hobbs Police Department Field Training Program (FTO).  

External Applicants: Minimum of 2 year law enforcement experience as a certified law enforcement officer. The ability to obtain a New Mexico Law Enforcement Certification within one year from date of hire.  

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:

•  Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with peers and supervisors;
•  Ability to exercise judgment in evaluating situations and in making operational decisions; 
• Ability to follow verbal and written instructions.
• Considerable knowledge of modern law enforcement principles, procedures, techniques, and equipment; 
• Considerable knowledge of investigative practices and procedures; 
• Considerable knowledge of proper methods of securing, handling, and preserving evidence; 
• Working knowledge of security clearance access to   law enforcement, court, State and Federal and other criminal history resources.
• Ability to analyze complex situations, problems and data, and use sound judgment in drawing conclusions and making decisions; 
• Ability to comprehend and articulate complex facts and relationships in detail and to summarize and write clearly, concisely and legibly, and to testify in court in an objective, concise and professional manner;
• Ability to produce or obtain reports, graphs, charts, photographs of the evidence or exhibits; 
• Ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing; ability to maintain effective working relationships with fellow employees, supervisors, and the public.
• Ability to follow verbal and written instructions.
• Ability to meet the special requirements listed below.
• Skill in operation of listed tools and equipment.
• Ability to perform detailed work with a high degree of accuracy;
•  Maintain flexibility and re-alter priorities in response to change; Interpret complex information; 
• Work independently; 
• Make oral presentations to individual or groups to provide information; 
• Produces complex written documents.
• Knowledge in research, investigation and analytical practices employed in the acquisition and dissemination of criminal intelligence information; 
• Principles and techniques of inductive and deductive reasoning; 
• Business English, spelling, grammar and punctuation required to produce complex written documents.
• Working knowledge or familiarity of the following computer programs is preferred – Computer Aided Dispatch, Police Records Management, Microsoft, Excel, and Graphics programs.
• Ability to speak effectively in public and prepare documentation for dissemination.
• Information Technology (IT), Computer Skills, Basic Technology skills preferred, but not required.

 

TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT USED

 Personal computer, police vehicle, police radio, semi-automatic rifle, handgun and other weapons as required, handcuffs, cellular phone, narcotics field test kit, first aid equipment, computer/keyboard, printer, photocopier, fax machine, telephone and office equipment.

 

LICENSING AND CERTIFICATIONS

• Valid State issued Driver’s License
• Residency requirement: residing within the five (5) mile planning radius of the city.*
• *See personnel manual for more details
• No felony convictions or disqualifying criminal histories. 
• Must maintain home telephone or cell phone.

 

SUPERVISION RECEIVED

 Works under general supervision of the E.A.G.L.E. Sergeant.

 

SUPERVISION EXERCISED

 None

 PHYSICAL DEMANDSThe physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. The majority of the time, heavy physical activity is not required.   However, a Police Officer needs to be able to actively respond to any situation in which the public or an officer may be in danger. The ability to physically interact with another person, including restraint, arrest, rescue, and defense of the employee or others is an essential function of the job. While performing the duties of this position, the employee is frequently required to sit, run, lift, talk and hear.  The employee is routinely required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, and feel objects, tools, and controls; reach with hands and arms; climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch,  crawl,   taste and smell.  The employee must be able to operate all authorized and issued weapons, equipment and motor vehicle. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move heavy objects or people.  The minimum physical limits are specified in the Protocol for Job Specific Tasks and standards set by the New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy. These are simulated through a series of job specific tasks designed to ensure the employee can lift 70 pounds floor to knuckle and 40 pounds knuckle to shoulder; lift and move a 150 pound dummy onto a stretcher, quickly run up and down three flights of stairs without exceeding 80 percent of the Maximum Percentage of Heart Rate (MPHR), successfully climb over a five foot wall, crawl 25 feet at a continuous pace, and walk the length of a 4 inch wide beam six times.  The employee may also be required to complete the following fitness screening in specified times which are gender and age normed: push-ups, sit-ups, mile and a half run, flexibility and 300 meter run. Vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Minimum vision abilities set by the New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy are as follows: uncorrected distance vision should be no more than 20/100, correctable to at least 20/30; near vision correctable to at least 20/40; color vision correct reading of at least nine or more of the first thirteen plates of the Ishihara test; depth perception should be sufficient to demonstrate normal stereo depth perception with/without correction to the standard-100 ARC seconds.   Minimal hearing acuity should be the average hearing level at the test frequencies, 500, 1000, and 2000 Hz will not exceed 25dB in either ear, and no single hearing level will exceed 30dB at any of these test frequencies in either ear.   Hearing loss at 3000Hz will not exceed 40dB HL in either ear.  State or New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy requirements shall be the minimum standards applicable

 WORK ENVIRONMENT

 The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

 While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works in outside weather conditions.  The employee occasionally works in high, precarious places; and with explosives and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, extreme cold, extreme heat and vibration.

 The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet while in the office, and moderately noisy while in the field.                                                    

The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed.  The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related or a logical assignment to the position.

Salary : $28 - $32